The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-17
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSONS AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA,

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for Its Busy Readers.
Bingham School has 110 pupils.
The Piedmont Press and Carozin;an
have consolidated.
Wilmington has a new daily .panei
called the Ne,us.
Durham's Northern Railroad wa,
commenced last week.
Durham laid the cornerstone of hel
new court house yesterday.
Rev. r. Campbell, of Goldsboro
has moved to Greensboro.
There are more than 80, 900 Knight:
of Labor in North Carolina.
Freshets have destroyed numbers ol
mill dams from Orange east
Bessememer iron ore has cen dis.
covered at Kings Mountain.
Hon. Richmond Pearson will build
an $4,000 residence in Asheville.
w. [. Blackwell, of Durham think.
Senator Ransom viii succeed himself
The Catawba Industrial Association
will meet to-day to plan for next year $
Fair.
Methodist Conference at Fayette-
vile on the Both, Bishop Key presia-
ing.
EPSON is the name Of 81 new post
~aice in Vance county. Why not
add "salts y?
Boy in Fayetteville. Post Office
robbed. Money found in boys pants.
Jail. Good.
In the past three months, 81, ,100,-
000 has been capitalized il gold mines
in this state.
The next session of the Presbyterian
Synod Of North Carolina will be held
in Goldsboro.
Mr. Pearson's revival in Salisbury
last week was wonderful. There were
over 300 converts.
The Asheville Advance has made an
assignment and will hereafter be run
as a Republican paper
Mormon elders are at work in the
extreme western part Of the State.
Tar and feathers needed
The increase in taxable property
this year is expected to reach S10,-
100000 in North Carolina.
It is rumored that Bro. Joe Cala-
well, Of the Statesviile Loadn,aTk is 10
revive the Charlotte Observer,
United States engineers are engag-
ed in the work of the river ship chan
mel at the mouth Of Cape Fear river.
The colored debating club Of Wilkes
boro recently debated the novel query,
"Will the Railroad Cheaper Corn ON
the Yadkin?"
Rev. Thos. Dixon, recently of Raj
eigh has accepted call to the pasto-
r0te of the Dudley Street Baptist
Church in Boston.
The new paper at Wilkesboro, tie
Mountain Breeze, now mourns the
departure of one Of its editors, A. W.
Frederick, for Arkansas.
1t is reported that several hundred
negroes, from all parts of the State
will meet in Charlotte on December
10Th, to einigrate to the West.
Mr.. E. T. B. Glenn, formerly of
Fayetteville has been presented by
Jefferson Davis with a memento,-a
piece of worn necktie
1t is said that Judge James II.
Merrimon, Of the 18th District, in.
tends resigning his seat on the Superi-
or Court bench in about sixty days.
The spindles are a-humming and
the rail roads are running ali over
North Carolina. There are no less
than thirteen roads being built in the
State.
The North Carolina Farmers Az
sociation will hold its first annual
meeting in the city of Greensboro on
the second Wednesday in January
next.
A tall from scaffoId last week in
Durham resulted in the death of C.
II. Van Nappen and serious injury to
John Van Noppen and G. II. Muir
ply.
Col. w. L. Saunders spent some
time in Salisbury last week gathering
materials for his History Of North
Carolina The first three volumes IRE
ready.
Trinity College has 1877 students.
and the number is constantly increas-
ing. The endowment fund now ex
eeeds $4,000. Hurrah for good old
Trinity.
Judge Clark says editors shall not
be imposed upon. While holding
court at Concord he fined Col. Paul
B. Means 500 for trying to whip eai-
tor Sheriff..
A man in Raleigh turned loose a
bull dog after man by the name OF
Williamson and was indicted and
found guilty of an assault with a
deadly weapon.
Cardinal Gibbons was guest of
Father Gross, at Charlotte last Thurs
day. Probably this is the first time
North Carolina has ever entertained
real, live cardinal
Gov. Scales has appointed Mai. r.
s. Tucker of Raleigh, State Commis-
sioner for tie Raleigh Savings Bank;
and Judge j. III. Gilmer, of Green's
boro, for the Greensboro Bank.
Rev. mr.. Clark, of Chapel Hill, has
been called to the rectorship of the
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